Quote Originally Posted by Mawlzy View Post
So maybe you could disseminate such info here to the little people? That would improve the quality of dialog on these forums, particularly given so much of it is hampered by having no clue what it is the devs are thinking. Or are you constrained by an NDA?
We are on the same team here. We have no method of directly communicating with any of the community representativess from Square Enix. I have spoken with one of them exactly once, and that was two years ago during the Community Cup when I was a team captain.

I agree that Frontline is complete garbage right now, and it's the mode that sees by far the most play because it's a roulette, so Frontline being bad means PvP is not in a good state. I have nearly 3,000 Frontline campaigns because I genuinely used to enjoy the mode, but it really does feel like our pleas for the mode to be fixed are not being answered.

So since they do not listen to our pleas on the forums, surely that means Square Enix listens to the Japanese playerbase?

I did an interview with prominent members of the Japanese PvP community with help of a translator: a finalist from JP CCRC, and a partnered Twitch streamer that mainly plays PvP. I asked them to speak on the feeling of their community as a whole (not their personal feelings) if they felt like their feedback was being heard. Their response was shocking- they said the JP PvP community believes Square Enix only listens to a small vocal minority on the English forums.

So wait- we're both pointing our fingers at each other! So who are they listening to?

Which brings us here, to where it is a matter of the community seemingly caring more about the game than the developers themselves and it is frustrating. I wish I could fix everything myself, but I cannot.